ExxonMobil Corporation has awarded a check for $24,000 to Stan Napper, dean of Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science, as part of the company’s academic grants to colleges and universities throughout the country.
College departments singled out for funding include:

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The Ruston Fire Department responded to a fire alarm on the Louisiana Tech University campus at Keeny Hall off College Street in Ruston at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday morning.

RFD Public Information Officer Eric Brazzel said two engines, one ladder truck, one command unit, one rescue unit along with several support vehicles and 14 firefighters responded to find all occupants evacuated and outside of the building.

Brazzel said smoke was pouring out of one door on the ground floor of the three-story building.

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